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Gauging interest: 24 hours webapp contest

by: Ross

I’ve been thinking, recently, how late night programing sessions with a few pals can be a ton of fun. I’ve also been thinking that CONTESTS ARE THE ONLY WAY TO PROVE WHO IS REALLY A MAN AND WHO IS A MOUSE.

Tell me your thoughts on this:

A 24 hour webapp contest amongst teams of three or four. The topics are assigned randomly combining topic areas with fun technology: “maps and education” or “social and cycling.” Teams would need to have design, development, database, UI type skillz. At the end of the twenty four hours a panel of judges deliberates and awards the winner with some sort of prize. Hopefully, if the app is sweet enough the prize would be funding to see the project through to completion.

You may have heard of this before: Junkyard Wars.

Thoughts?

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  1. Color me stupid but intrigued. Or full of app ideas and utterly incapable of executing on most of them.

    — John | @

  2. NERDS!

    — Wolf | @

  3. I dig, but could you find enough app guys interested to make it awesome? If it happens, I will watch for results…

    — Jason | @

  4. Yeah I’m not sure. There were lots of dudes at Refresh Richmond, so I feel like there are enough people. 3-4 teams would suffice.

    — Ross | @

  5. Psh… wish I’ve taken the time to learn some web app stuff

    — The Other Wolf | @

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